Let the Cloud Protect You

Author: Keith Huggett

Nothing strikes fear in a business owner’s heart more than the thought of permanently losing critical data. What a disaster! Whether it’s a power outage, a flood or a fire, if your business isn’t properly protected, disaster recovery could be challenging, to say the least.

For every kind of business, core information integrity is key, and ineffective data recovery could be truly devastating. Many companies are turning to the cloud for protection.

The traditional way

The unthinkable happens, and you’ve lost all of your data. You can only hope someone remembered to perform the latest backup, but when was that? Within the last minute, last night, last week? Hopefully it’s current, and your information is housed someplace safe.

Now begins the lengthy and cumbersome restoration task of reloading programs as well as files. It will take many hours – time and money you’ll never recover. Not to mention the lost confidence of your clients. You may never recover from that, either.

Worst case? It could literally mean the end of your company.

Disaster recovery in the cloud

With web-based accounting, information systems, software and documents are all safe, ensuring business continuity even if disaster does strike.

Cloud-based computing uses virtual servers that store your software and data and back it up more than once, in more than one location. Yet it’s always available for immediate retrieval.

There are many benefits, including:

• Real-time data backup and encryption
• Negligible system downtime, important for daily operations as well as disaster recovery
• No time wasted on performing backups
• No space needed for physical backup equipment or off-site storage
• Affordability, allowing small and mid-sized firms to achieve a level of protection that they couldn’t manage on their own
• Scalability – the cloud always fits perfectly regardless of your company's size

Cloud-based computing also gives your business the secure infrastructure and control you need to meet compliance requirements.  

Why take chances? The latest technology can turn disaster recovery into a workflow “glitch,” rather than a serious threat to your company's entire future. Interested in exploring it? Contact us at The Tax Office, Inc. today.